Bonneville Salt Flats Wendover

Salt Lake was a great place to go! I went on a family road trip and had a nice time, although it was a slightly akward experience being so exposed to the Mormon culture (everyone in the city that lives there wears name tags), it was a good learning experience …

Salt Lake City nestled in the mountains is beautiful. From all angles you can view mountains with snow on the peaks. The city itself is nice, spring time so all the flowers are coming out. We spent some time walking through temple square, checking out the big churches. Mostly built in the 1800's they are quite grand. Being Easter a lot of people …

My Dad was commissioned to turn a stock SVT Mustang Cobra into a land speed car to race at the salt flats. It was an incredible experience to see this natural splendor …

Drove the stretch of roads from Durango, CO across to Four Corners (r491, r160) and stopped by at Mesa Verde National Park. The Cliff Dwellings were amazing, just so impressive what remains of the old structures and had a Park ranger to answer questions and give information, this was fantastic! I recommend this to anyone passing through, although …

We visited the Bonneville Salt Flats State Park! What fun, very open land and miles on miles of salt and flatness... We even took the Jeep for a test run, although didn't go out too far in retrospect. The flats are huge! There is a lot of history here with speed records and racing. We could see the check point for the races which is over 15miles …

... – she'll be fine, but I do miss her and Flora! We moved through Salt Lake City taking the road towards the Bonneville Salt Flats but spotted a campground next to where the State Fair was to be held and it started the next day – in we ...

... it would be quite easy to get bogged, and we are miles from anywhere. Anyway we can now say we have visited the Bonneville salt flats. 16/12 Spent the day visiting a few of the local tourist attractions, nothing to get excited about. Salt Lake City is a ...

My Dad was commissioned to turn a stock SVT Mustang Cobra into a land speed car to race at the salt flats.  It was an incredible experience to see this natural ...

These salt flats are amazing! You can drive as fast as you like as there are no speed limits for up to 14 miles in any direction with no other cars in sight! Great fun...just removing the salt afterwards thats the ...

... is one of the high mileage days of our trip, driving from Brian Head UT to Salt Lake City UT, but first heading to the Bonneville Salt Flats. We were planning to get up at 800am, but we were both awake earlier so we figured we might as well get up and ...

Setting off from Wendover towards Salt Lake City we could see that the Bonneville Salt Flats were on our left some distance from the road. Expecting to have a considerable detour before our journey south to Monument Valley we set off early. With world ...

... until I could no longer see the entrance.  That was far enough.  It would be very easy to get disoriented on the flats.  Now that I think about it, I wonder what it would be like to camp there overnight.  Hmmmmm. Nobody was racing or ...

12th Aug WOOOO HOOOO!!! Today we were bound for the Bonneville Salt Flats. The drive to the salt flats was beautiful. The scenery was amazing, rolling mountains and endless deserts. We came to a hill where we knew Bonneville was coming up soon, but as ...

... and the fact that it comes up from the salt and the underneath of you nose and nostrils get burnt really easily. We got to the flats and the sun was beaming down. It was so hot in the sun it was nearly unbearable but the shade was still pleasant. We had ...

... . Here are some facts about the Salt Flats, and the Bonneville: -         The Bonneville Salt Flats covers over 30,000 acres and is administered by the Bureau of Land Management. ...